Hey gang... we're knee-deep in building out some cool new features for y'all that we think you'll really like.
We wanted to get your input, though, because we definitely don't have all the answers.
So, if you've ever thought "if only I could do [this]" on FOXSports blogs, now's your opportunity to let us know!
There are two ways to do this. You can leave your thoughts in the comments, or you can post it on your blog (asking YOUR readers for their thoughts, too) and categorize the post under "FeatureRequest" (with no spaces).
We can't guarantee that we'll implement everything that comes up, but you'll have an impact on where this product goes, and you'll be making the product better for YOU, the community.
Thanks, and we're all excited about hearing your ideas to make this a better product!
I'd like to see a featured blogger section. Maybe you could choose a new blogger every week or so and feature them and their work. I think this would build the community we have going here, plus give some exposure to bloggers who might not otherwise get it. I don't know how you'd decide who the featured blogger would be, but it would be a great way to get to know some of the other bloggers. I can't speak for everyone else, but I've found some pretty interesting people with some pretty interesting opinions. It would be really cool to get to know some of them a little better. Maybe you could include some kind of questionnaire where the featured blogger can tell us some interesting things about himself or herself, then feature their work in some creative way.
It'd be kind of cool if this joke of a contest actually resulted in hiring the next best sportswriter, not simply the person who can best manipulate voting. Reverse the voting. Let the bloggers narrow it down to 8 or 4, then let judges decide.
Right now, this is American Idol + cheating.
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I would love to see a private comment or chat added. I am not a puter genious so I do not know how difficult it would be to get it done, but being able to chat with some of our blog buddies in private would be way cool.
I like the angle of bringing lesser knowns into the forefront, but there still needs to be some talent involved in the composition. Take the top two submissions in each major category (plus two wild cards) and let the blogosphere vote for post of the week. Limit one post per category per blogger per month. Think CNN's "play of the day" but multiple choice.
Could you expand the main blog page so that a blog does not disappear so quickly. Currently there are times when new blogs on the most popular subjects are on page 2 in less than an hour. Hence blogs showing up in incorrect categories.
Another suggestion. You've just got to do something about posting a new post to your blog. There have been times when I've tried to post and I've had to repost it seven or eight times before it shows up on the main page. It is so frustrating to spend quality time on a post, only for it to not show up and no one read it. I know others have also had the same problem.
It would be helpful if you could make the blogs in each category appear more like an itemized list. For example, put them in order of time posted and then simply list the title and blogger's name. It was somewhat like this earlier, but now when I click on a category I have to scroll through entire blogs to see what else is "down" there. Make the font small so we can see as many titles as easily as possible. I think we all feel that we miss opportunities to read some good blogs because they seem to "vanish" so quickly in the current set-up. Thanks for giving us the chance to make suggestions.
I agree the post goes to the second page to quickly. make each sport a page with about 50 or so blogs.Plus weed out the people who only post and never comment. The idea is to blog with each other. You read someones post ,add a comment, then they read your comment, then you comment. Why do we need im or chat? Thats dumb, just get on your or your friends blog and discuss the issue, then go find another blog ,or go to your own and do the same .
I am new to this blogging thing. I would like to know how you go and look for your comments and answers after the highlighted BLogs are no longer on the main page. Or it is the next day and you want to go back to the day before. Sorry Blogging challenged here. Thanks
Hi Kareem/Toronto! Thought I would pst my suggestion for the drop down boxes coming off the main game titles at the top.
Perhaps moving the blog links(Write Post, Go To My Blog, etc) to the left or right side, along the screen edges as tabs.
This way we bloggers will not accidently hit the drop down boxes of the main game titles such as NCAA FB, Fantasy, etc. If you over shoot your blog button, you go into these main game titles and with that, there is a slight hesitation in the drop down boxes. So when you go to click the blog buttons, you end up hitting a drop down link to one of the main game titles.
I cant tell you how many times I have hit the Fanstasy drop down links since I have been blogging here....lol.
The site itself looks great, you guys have done an excellent job here. I know a website cannot be perfect, there will always be the exception. I hope this helps in your endevour(spelling) in reformatting the website.
My suggestions were getting far too lengthy to keep hording the comment chain the way in which they were beginning to. I have so many suggestions I figured it would be best to write a post on it.
Go check out my blog. Yes, I know, some shameless self promotion. But I am really passionate in regards to the subject at hand and eager to lend many of my suggestions to it, a reality that honestly made it absolutely necessary for me to write a post on it.
Maybe the names on your favorite blog list could turn a different color when they write a new blog that you haven't read yet, almost like a "new blog alert".
What if you categorize by city next time? For instance, if I want to read what any Browns fan writes then all I have to do is search with cleveland being my keyword. Also, how about a search function? One last thing, how about we send Randy Rader a check???? Not just one, several!
Right now, I would actually just write for a double quarterpounder with cheese. If you can make that happen, I'll show the World that the guy who lived on McDonalds for a month was full of it. I will eat 6 meals a day for a year but it has to come out of your pocket.
The Announcers need to be able to speak and ennouncate the English language. I am feed up with trying to figure out what they are saying...take a speach class for heaven sake you make enough money
Porter --- There's a name for a guy ( for he is NOT a man ) who talks about a fellow competitor like Mr. Porter does. The name has been known in all times, and in all lands. That name fits Mr. Porter like a well fitted glove.
That name is COWARD!
I know this has nothing to do with this topic, and I doubt that anyone spends the time to read it anyways. I was wondering why some of us more faithful bloggers do not make the Most Popular Blog list when our blogs are posted after other blogs on the list and we get far more hits? Example, there is a blog with ten comments right now posted at 10:30 Am, Mine was posted at 2:41p.m and had 16 hits but his is on most popular mine is not. I rarely see mine on the popular list with the same scenerio in place. It is important because most blogers, myself included always clicks the most popular list when checking into the blogs. I also noticed, my post has more hits than all of the most popular blogs listed, this is pathetic, can you fix it please?
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Hits? I haven't found a hit counter on the site. By hits do you mean comments?
Now that I've been here a little while, I've started to come up with a wish list for blogs.foxsports.com.
o FIX INADVERTANT DUPLICATES - Have you noticed that sometimes a comment gets dupicated and posted multiple times? After posting a comment, if you click "Back," the site reposts the comments you just posted. It would be nice if this were fixed, especially since there doesn't seem to be an option for us to delete our own comments ...
Which would be another thing for the wish list: an option so that we can delete our comments and not just edit them.
o SEARCH - Say I want to find all the comments I have made in everyone's blogs. Right now, the only way I can think of to do that is to go to Google.com and in the search field type:
Tom7 site:blogs.foxsports.com
Goggle will then give me a hit list of all the times "Tom7" is found on blogs.foxsports.com since the last time it crawled it ... meaning it won't catch the recent stuff.
It would be great if blogs.foxsports.com had a search field of its own that we could use to search for specific blogger names, or for any keywords found in the text of the blogs and comments.
o FILTERS - There is a lot of cross posting into categories that really clutter each of the categories. For instance, you can go to the NBA section and find a LOT of super bowl posts because the author assigned his post to both categories.
Again, right now the only way I know of to read NBA articles sans NFL topics is to use Google:
NBA -NFL site:blogs.foxsports.com
It would be nice if blogs.foxsports.com allowed us to filter posts so we see what we are focused to see, or we could filter all articles except those on a certain topic or by a certian author.
during the super bowl i was not going for a certain team. but as the game progressed and all the calls kept going against seattle i found myself going for them. there were several blown calls that probably cost them the game, the first touchdown that was supposedly reviewd was obviously not a touchdown, the holding call on the completion to the one yard line that would have set up a go ahead touchdown and then a ghost block on the qb when he tackled taylor after the interception, that later set up another td for the steelers. knowing what kind of game this should have been i am very dissaponted in the officals and think they are a main reason the game was the way it was. if this type of thing continues espeacially in big games this sport will no longer be fun and interesting to watch. the mfl needs to reevaluate how and how conducts games, the superbowl was a great dissapointment because the officals ruined it.
THIS GAME WAS ALL ABOUT THE OFFICIALS! THE SEAHAWKS SHOULD HAVE FORFIETED AND LEFT WITH A SENSE OF KNOWING THE STEELERS HAD THE OFFICIALS IN THIER POCKET, OR PAYROLL......ONE SIDED! YOU BET! YOU CANT WIN IF YOUR BOUND TO LOOSE! THAT WAS BULLS&%#!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be wise on part of Fox to announce the next NGS competition soon, and hold it in a few months, and not hold it at the same time they did this time, right at Christmas time. Holding it in the summer will make baseball the main topic of interest, and not the NFL. I love both, but it would only be fair to rotate the time of year it is held so the focus will not always be on the same sports, and the advantage with those who are bigger fans of those sports than others. The timing is everything. If you hold it in March, it will be predominantly on NCAA BK, NBA, and a little MLB and WBC. May, and the main focus will be soley on the NBA and MLB, etc.
As added incentive to keep the blogging community going strong, Fox could declare the next NGS to be "The NGS Invitational" and carefully select 50 bloggers based on quality posts, number of comments, favorite lists, etc, based on what they do over the next few months, limiting the actual competition to those select few, and maintaining a competitive blogging atmosphere year round in the process.
What is up with the blogging MPB? My last 5 posts have been way up there in numbers, but not one have made it to the most popular blog status while some guys post on gretzky with 2 comments has been there for 24 hours. My Olympic post has 14 comments and my one on Terrorism in Sports has 141. What is up?
I would like to see a "New Comment" alert similar to what you see on MySpace when someone adds a comment to a blog. I have a good memory, and memorize without really trying how many comments each of my recent blogs have, and can easily find out by checking the number... but this is for those who don't have such photographic memories.
Let us more talented web designers have full-fledged control on our pages, and let us use JavaScript. I know that some people can use it for malicious purposes, but as you have seen, there aren't a whole lot of web wizards on here (no offense to anyone), and there hasn't been a lot of "violence" either. On my 2006 MLB Season Preview on my website, I have it so that the logos are linked to a feature that shows what player I think fans should keep an eye out for, but it doesn't work on the blogs here.
I'd like to see a blog section about the Fox sports writers. The writers could even participate in the discussions. I see numerous comments across various blogs about Hench for example. Hench may not wish to participate, but the comments about each writer's articles would be together rather than scattered about.
I like the new setup, but would rather that it followed the newest articles written. It would be a longer page, yes, but I like seeing those first and then strolling through the categories to find a specific team. Also, I would like you to throw in a golf section.
Once again, how about a wrestling section for pro and amateur wrestling? Or a misc. section for my posts to stay up. You don't place them in any other section unless they get alot of comments and make it to the MPB section. People are missing them that way when they actually may want to read them.
It would be nice to know how many people are reading my blogs. I mean, why spend time writing if there is no way of knowing just how many people are reading my stuff? I might comment on one of ten blogs I read, but that shouldn't discourage bloggers who are looking to be heard.
How about a blog for UFC fans or combatant sports in general. There are plenty of fans out there of all age groups that love boxing, wrestling, Mixed Martial Arts, UFC, kickboxing, Thai-boxing, etc.?
There needs to be some sort of authority on here. There are far too many offensive posts being done on here, as well as a wee lil' too much bickering. It's one thing to engage in a whole hearted debate about sprots rivalries, but to have someone leave 7 posts to my comments that belittle people is wrong. As a blogger, we should have the ability to ban poeple from our comment sections or blogs all together. UltraMega, for example, is a pig, and I don't want his un- American euphesisms gracing my work...........
